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I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

— Robert E. Lee

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I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself.

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

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I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union.

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.

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